Scotiabank Digital Factory Commences Production in Canada

Toronto (ots/PRNewswire) -

First of its kind environment will house 350 digital, design,
engineering and agile experts working to improve customer experiences

Scotiabank officially opened the doors today to its Canadian
Digital Factory, a dedicated digital production facility designed to
drive collaboration and creativity as well as to improve our
customers' experience in areas such as mobile and digital banking
transactions, account openings, loan adjudication and mortgage
lending.

The 70,000 square foot facility, located in Toronto just a few
blocks away from Scotiabank's global corporate headquarters, will
employ digital, design, engineering and agile specialists. The space
is designed to facilitate collaboration, creativity and real-time
direct customer input to develop innovative solutions.

Scotiabank is creating a network of Digital Factories including
one in each of the Pacific Alliance countries of Mexico, Peru, Chile
and Colombia. These Factories will serve as incubators for new
products, services and solutions for Scotiabank's 23 million
customers around the world.

"All Scotiabankers are deeply proud of our five Digital Factories
and the work that is taking place in these facilities," said Brian
Porter, President and CEO, Scotiabank. "These creative workspaces are
inspiring and encouraging entrepreneurism, accelerating delivery
times and allowing our teams to sharpen their focus on meeting the
needs of our customers. They are also playing an important role in
spurring FinTech innovation, productivity and job growth in their
local markets."

Designed by Interior Architects
(http://www.interiorarchitects.com/), the new Digital Factory
facility in Toronto was designed based on ideas and input from
Scotiabank employees to create a space that reflects the diversity of
workstyles and the need for a creative, agile and fun work
environment.

Quick Facts about the Scotiabank Digital Factory Space in Toronto:

- Customer Usability Lab: Customer feedback informs our
test-and-learn development culture every step of the way. The
Customer Usability Lab space at the Digital Factory is a place
where our teams meet with our customers to test our solutions as we
build them. It helps our teams understand what our customers want
and need, and enables us to capture real time feedback and iterate
on what has already been designed.
- Scrum-ready workspaces: From large huddle rooms to private meeting
booths, the technology-forward design enables teams to collaborate
across the Bank's footprint, and drives quality and efficiency of
technical production for employees and scrum teams who use the
agile methodology. The neighbourhood themes and meeting rooms are
named after people and technologies that disrupted and transformed
their industries.
- Artful design and inspiration: Artwork throughout acknowledges
Scotiabank's history and inspires the future. The Digital Factory
logo - a fusion between the traditional factory gear and a
pixelated gear - encapsulates the transformation from analog to
digital and Scotiabank's broader digital transformation. Proudly on
display is a stylized Scotiabank Coat of Arms from the original
version designed in 1921. Informed by interviews with Digital
Factory employees, Toronto artists created a mural that represents
Scotiabank's evolving role for banking customers around the world,
grounded in the bank's core values: respect, integrity, passion and
accountability.
- Security haven: A biometric security access solution captures and
matches four fingerprints with a single hand movement. It
implements contactless technology, allowing residents to remain on
the move when passing through a control point.

About Scotiabank

Scotiabank is Canada's international bank and a leading financial
services provider in North America, Latin America, the Caribbean and
Central America, and Asia-Pacific. We are dedicated to helping our 23
million customers become better off through a broad range of advice,
products and services, including personal and commercial banking,
wealth management and private banking, corporate and investment
banking, and capital markets. With a team of more than 88,000
employees and assets of $896 (CAN) billion (as at October 31, 2016),
Scotiabank trades on the Toronto (TSX: BNS) and New York Exchanges
(NYSE: BNS). For more information, please visit
http://www.scotiabank.com and follow us on Twitter @ScotiabankViews
(http://twitter.com/@ScotiabankViews).

About the Digital Factory

The Digital Factory is a hub for creation and incubation of new
and partner-led ideas to deliver game-changing solutions for
Scotiabank customers. The Digital Factory is a cornerstone of
Scotiabank's digital transformation, and is focused on reinventing
how banking serves people by first reinventing the way we work. Visit
us at digitalfactory.scotiabank.com
(http://digitalfactory.scotiabank.com/). Follow us on Twitter
@Scotia_df (https://twitter.com/Scotia_DF) / Instagram @Scotia_df
(https://www.instagram.com/scotia_df/?hl=en) / Facebook at Scotiabank
Digital Factory (https://www.facebook.com/ScotiabankDigitalFactory/).
#ScotiaDF

For media enquiries only: Marcelo Gomez-Wiuckstern, Public,
Corporate and Government Affairs,

Scotiabank, 416-933-1344, marcelo.gomez-wiuckstern@scotiabank.com

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